That's Adobe Acrobat - at least that's what it's been on my 866 MHz PIII system. Every time I did an upgrade or new install of an application that used the internet stack, Acrobat had to reinstall itself. Well, not any more ...

The last straw was yesterday when I upgraded Thunderbird. At reboot, Acrobat reinstalled. The next time I tried to use Thunderbird it couldn't log in to the pop server.

For comparison purposes, I downloaded and installed Opera, imported my Thunderbird settings, and looked for new mail. No problem - it connected to the pop server with no delays and fetched the mail. NOTE: I don't recommend Opera's email feature. It works, but all the incoming mail goes into one list - it doesn't let you create sub-folders for sorting and storing your received mail by categories.

Since Opera showed there was not a problem on the pop side, I removed Acrobat, then cleaned out the Acrobat dustbunnies the uninstall program left in the registry.

I downloaded and installed Foxit Reader, a free PDF reader. I recommend this reader because it loads much faster than Acrobat or Acrobat Reader and, as I found when I next tried Thunderbird, it doesn't stomp all over the internet stack. Yay - now I can get the chain-letter spam my wife forwards to me from work!

So long, Acrobat (good riddance, you ungainly bitch!)  For now, I'll use Open Office to convert or create PDF files. Later I'll probably get the non-free PDF creator and editor packages from Foxit. Based on the performance of their free reader, it will be money well spent.

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